Brandon Felczer

CapnBranFlakes

Re: Star Trek: The Journey

August 18 2011
:ds9:


Episode 355 - Deep Space Nine - "Shakaar" - 05/22/1995

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=3324

Kai Winn needs Kira to convince her former resistance leader, now a farmer on Bajor, to return soil reclamators needed elsewhere.


Enjoy!
Brandon Felczer

CapnBranFlakes

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 18 2011
There was an update to what is actually happening:

Guys,

Let's back up for a minute and clarify what's going on here.

Nothing has changed since San Diego Comic Con.

As discussed at SDCC, the decision was made to separate the general chat channels by faction. However, this decision ONLY affects the planet-wide chat channels such as "General Chat." If you're standing next to another player (local chat), you can talk to them regardless of what faction you're part of.

The only thing we removed, as already mentioned at Comic-Con, was the ability to communicate with the opposing faction across the entirety of a planet to avoid the issues (like griefing, abuse, and other factors which led to a very unpleasant experience) which we saw way too often in testing.

We discussed the option of hiding the global chat and defaulting it off, but ultimately the ratio of negative incidents was too high to justify that. The reasoning here is simple: We really didn't want to create a game option that essentially says "[x] Give me an 80% chance of having an infuriating and annoying chat experience," and putting the onus on the user ("you can just /ignore them") is not our idea of a quality game experience.

Removing planet-wide cross-faction chat radically reduces the amount of reach a misbehaving player has before account action can be taken. We'll likely add the ability to filter local cross faction chat as well.

Hopefully that clears it up a bit. . - Georg Zoeller

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8314508#edit8314508
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Kj

kjmk

Re: Official Guild sign up OB has started with invites

August 18 2011
I counted 9 confirmed pre-orders in the "i pre-ordered" topic in this forum section. Add 1 more for me makes 10, plus there's bound to be others too. Cool. :silly:
Seannewboy

Seannewboy

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 18 2011
Yes but im thinking of the zone/fleet chat we currently use when we need one more for say an stf, you wont be able to do that in swtor without changing characters to get that last member for a republic flashpoint.

Re: Age of Empires goes F2P

August 18 2011
If you decide to play, join the StonewallPeeps channel. A few of us are in there. :)

Unknown Person

Re: Age of Empires goes F2P

August 18 2011
I think I played one of those at a friends house a long time ago. I liked it, RTS games where my first love. I might check it out. I think the one that I played had Atlanteans in it.

Unknown Person

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 18 2011
Actually it depends on the game and how their open PvP Systems work. In Dark Age of Camelot "spying" was a real issue and they didn't allow you to talk to the other faction or have a character of another faction on the same server. People still did it using separate accounts across chat programs like mIRC.

With a REAL open PvP system you need a certain amount of privacy if your going to launch a surprise attack against the other side and people logging onto their other characters or whispering their friends to say "Hey guys, we have a force of 200 here and we're about to attack your epic keep!" really ruined that aspect of it.

WoW and games since really have lost the need for this but if SWTOR has any sort of open world PvP with real objectives to conquer that give benefits for holding and defending then you can't have cross-faction talk. Your Enemies need to be your Enemies and not your friends.
Patrick

Van

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 18 2011
My nickel and dime. I'm glad they don't have cross faction communication.
I know I know I'm probably the only one. I only have one experience in MMO's with
cross faction communications and that is in Rift
You can do a /say or /y to chat to the other faction.
In pvp it's just horrid at what folks say back and forth to each other. Yes I can just not
read what is being said but when it's repeated over and over again...geesh!

Now I'm sure there are plenty of folks who do not act like this but it takes only a few to
ruin it for the majority.
David

Keioel

Re: Age of Empires goes F2P

August 17 2011
Keioel :) hehe
Will Tubbert

MarkNine

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 17 2011
I remember the early days of MMOs when you couldn't even have characters of opposing factions on the same server (I want to say WoW fell into this camp during it's early days). They were worried about "spying."

This does seem dated now though.

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 17 2011
That just seems stupid tbh. MMOs are suppose to be social and not being able to chat to a friend on the same server, just on the other faction, isn't very social.
Bradley Barbour

bradley1701

Re: Vegas Convention 2011

August 17 2011
It was no problem at all! I had an amazing time again this year...miss everyone so much! Can't wait for the next trip......LLAP

Unknown Person

Re: Vegas Convention 2011

August 17 2011
Definitely a BIG THANKS to Bradley and Doug for helping to make such a wonderful weekend for us all. Also I gotta give it up to Brandon for putting together the Dining With the Devs event, it was really cool to actually talk to them. That Troll in the corner made me mad though lol.
Seannewboy

Seannewboy

Re: Star Trekian Birthday's-Master List

August 17 2011
1 for today.
Seannewboy

Seannewboy

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 17 2011
Well i guess in the various beta's it was on again and off again, now they have confirmed it as gone again forever.

More importantly than funding new toons, it means we wont be able to chat to set up pvp or raids.
Edited August 17 2011 by Seannewboy
Nic

nniicc

Re: There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 17 2011
Didn't they announce that ages ago?

Apparently stupid talk is part of PvP.

When I create an alt with the other faction i won't be able to fund my new toon with money from my main. That's annoying for a game where they want you to play both sides (why else would they create two unique sets of quests).
Seannewboy

Seannewboy

There will be no cross faction communication . . .

August 17 2011
No email no chat.

Unknown Person

Re: Knights of Stonewall Moto?

August 17 2011
Balance in Diversity
Power in Diversity
Strength in Diversity
Or Wisdom in Diversity
All tie in well, it can show we are the same fleet/ect but give us our own tagline
Edited August 17 2011 by Unknown Person
Nic

nniicc

Re: Knights of Stonewall Moto?

August 17 2011
Quote by NicholasJohn16

I'm more curious about how we can tie the Motto into our 'blurb' and why would a group of Jedi and Sith decide to unite?

Their not allied. They are adversary guilds according to the guilds info on the swtor guilds page. I don't really know what that means though. The only time the two guilds will be playing together is fighting each other in PVP.

I don't think it's necessary to mention any explanation as to why there are two opposed guilds. Most people will have toons on both sides, because the quests are 100% different.

Re: Knights of Stonewall Moto?

August 17 2011
I think a separate motto for Knights and Lords of Stonewall is a great idea. As has already been said, Star Wars and Star Trek have very different ideas and cultures. Strength in Diversity resonates well with Star Trek, but not so much with Star Wars. I'd think that the Jedi surprising the Sith and the Sith suppressing the Jedi for thousands of years at a time would hardly be considered a diversity friendly environment.

I'm more curious about how we can tie the Motto into our 'blurb' and why would a group of Jedi and Sith decide to unite?